Books
Adventures in Blogville: A Creative Writing Guide for Teens – An entertaining, yet instructional book that teaches young, beginning, or intermediate writers how to write engaging prose, be it for blog posts, essays or other stories. A great resource for homeschooling. (Written in family-friendly language.)
Sticky Readers: How to Attract a Loyal Blog Audience by Writing More Better A humorous, but helpful book about writing better blog posts. It explains the various ways to make your writing more engaging (i.e. less boring) so that a reader will “stick” around for the whole thing, rather than read the first paragraph, get bored and leave. (Occurrences of non-family-friendly content).
Magazine Articles
Articles published in Complete Wellbeing Magazine (print):
- “Truth Be Told”, Complete Wellbeing, March 2015
- “When You’re Blessed with Annoying Co-workers”, Complete Wellbeing, April 2015
- “In a Manner of Speaking”, Complete Wellbeing, October 2015
Articles published in Complete Wellbeing Magazine (online):
- “Truth Be Told“, March 2015
- “7 Types of Coworkers You Wish You Could Strangle“, September 2016
- All my articles on Complete Wellbeing.
Spoken Word
I read an essay called Wooly Bully in the 2014 Listen to Your Mother show in Sacramento.
I read an essay called Avocado Green and Other Things That Are Wrong in the 2013 Listen to Your Mother show in Sacramento. Here’s the video on YouTube.
Website Development and Authoring
I write content (and built the websites for):
Nanny Goats in Panties – a personal humor blog
Sticky Readers – a blogging tutorial site
Sacramento Bloggers – a local blogging community website
Boldly Me – a Bay Area-based nonprofit organization
Journalism
I wrote some articles for Patch (now owned by Huffington Post)
I wrote some articles for CBS Local Media:
Best Boutiques Around Sacramento
Best Casinos Around Sacramento
Best Shoe Stores in Sacramento
Best Shopping Malls in the Sacramento Area
Best Musical Instrument Stores in Sacramento
Best iPhone & iPad apps for Sacramento Living
Best Golf Courses in Sacramento Area
Video Game:
I wrote content (script, character and feature names) for an online casual video game called Coconut Queen by iWin Games. It was listed in Gamezebo’s Best of 2009 special Editorial section. From their initial review: “Coconut Queen is an ambitious, humorous and wonderful game”. It was rated 8.5 on Metacritic.
Some cherry-picked testimonials from this page (emphasis mine):
This is one of my family’s favorite games for all the reasons stated by other players and just the pure fun of the humor used by the characters. We wish they would make another version of it and retain the integrity of this game’s charm.
…the graphics and storyline were great!
It’s rare to find a casual game with a sense of humor and fun graphics.
Other Stuff:
Mouthy Housewives (Guest Advice Columnist)
Ann’s Rants – For a Bout of Free-Association Friday
Fiction
The Judge (Long Story Short)
Sandra and Charlie (Toasted Cheese)
One Man’s Trash (T-Zero)
Prologue and Acknowledgements (Defenestration)
Nonfiction
Amadeus Paints Houses (Humor Press)
Heredity Sucks (Wild Violet)
Book Reviews
The Mighty Queens of Freeville – Amy Dickinson
The Brightest Moon of the Century– Christopher Meeks
Driving With Dead People – Monica Holloway
The Learners – Chip Kidd
After Hours At The Almost Home – Tara Yellen
The Cure For Modern Life – Lisa Tucker
If I Only Knew Then – Charles Grodin
Starbucked – Taylor Clark
Intellectual Devotional – Kidder/Oppenheimer
Gentlemen of the Road – Michael Chabon
Don’t Make A Scene – Valerie Block
Things I Overheard – Alan Alda
Fireworks – E. H. Winthrop
Slacker Girl – Alexandra Koslow
